Chapter 212

According to Hamdaoyi, Lens is only 20 years old this year and did not show much strength when he was in Alkmaar.

Otherwise, he would not have been excluded from Alkmaar's lineup this season by Van Gaal and loaned out.

But people are sometimes such strange animals.

Maybe it was stimulated by being loaned out, or maybe the environment in Nijmegen is more suitable for Lens. Anyway, Lens is like a fish in water in Nijmegen.

This season, Lens scored 12 goals in Nijmegen and had several assists.

Although he is far inferior to Jiang Xiaolin, as a young loaned player, he can score so many goals in a season and firmly occupy a main position. It can be seen how powerful Lens' talent and strength are.

Not everyone is as evil and perverted as Jiang Xiaolin.

In this game, facing the old club Alkmaar, Lens was like taking stimulants, and created a huge threat to Alkmaar's defense through continuous passing and cutting in the frontcourt.

In the 5th minute, Lens took the ball and broke through David Mendes and Pocognoli on the left side of the front court, and then passed the ball into the penalty area.

If his teammates had not been a step late in their running and coordination, and Alkmaar's central defender Hector Moreno had kicked the ball out of the penalty area in advance, I am afraid that Nijmegen would have had a good chance to shoot in the penalty area.

Even so, Lens' performance was praised by the fans on the scene. The home fans of Nijmegen gave Lens huge applause and cheers, and some people kept shouting his name, as if he was the king of Nijmegen.

Obviously, the fans of Nijmegen were irritating the nerves of everyone in Alkmaar.

Although Lens' performance was good, it was not as good as Jiang Xiaolin's treatment.

The only reason why Nijmegen applauded and cheered for Lens was that the opponent of this game was Alkmaar, Lens' old club.

Nijmegen's fans hoped that Lens would perform as well as possible, and it would be best if they scored two goals to help them eliminate Alkmaar.

If Lens really scored in the final and helped Nijmegen eliminate Alkmaar, he would definitely offend the fans of Alkmaar and be hated by the fans of Alkmaar.

In addition, after eliminating Alkmaar, Nijmegen will qualify for the UEFA Cup next season, while Alkmaar will not.

In this way, Lens may stay in Nijmegen and play European games with Nijmegen, instead of returning to Alkmaar to be booed by the fans.

This is why Lens can get the biggest applause and cheers from the home fans in this game.

Of course, the away fans of Alkmaar also know the purpose of the other side, but many people just feel very unhappy.

"You can't show anything when you are in your home team, but you are so good when you are loaned to other teams, and you are so desperate in the game against your home team. You are really a traitor." - This is the voice of many Alkmaar fans.

Therefore, despite knowing the purpose of the other fans, many Alkmaar fans still booed Lens.

The boos from the fans of the parent team made Lens more motivated.

"The more you boo me, the better I will perform and slap you in the face." Lens thought without flinching.

Next, Lens performed even better.

In fact, Nijmegen's overall strength may be even stronger than Alkmaar.

Alkmaar, ranked 7th, eliminated Roda JC, ranked 10th, with a total score of 5-2, while Nijmegen, ranked 9th, also eliminated Groningen, ranked 8th, which was higher than them, with a total score of 4-1.

The goal difference was three.

One was to eliminate a team ranked three places lower than itself, and the other was to eliminate a team ranked higher than itself. Under the same goal difference, the gold content is still somewhat different.

Moreover, among the five goals scored by Alkmaar in the two rounds, four were scored by Jiang Xiaolin.

If there was no Jiang Xiaolin, Alkmaar might have been eliminated by Roda JC, not to mention the elimination of Roda JC by a large score.

Therefore, excluding Jiang Xiaolin's factor, Nijmegen's offensive strength in the frontcourt should be stronger than Alkmaar's midfield and backcourt.

Coupled with Lens' outstanding performance, we can see that more than ten minutes after the start of the game, Alkmaar was suppressed by Nijmegen and did not complete any decent counterattacks.

Jiang Xiaolin had a chance to counterattack after offside in the 11th minute, but David Mendes's long pass from the backcourt was a little too big, and Jiang Xiaolin failed to catch up. Nijmegen's goalkeeper Babos rushed out of the penalty area and headed the ball back to the midfield.

Jiang Xiaolin's timeThe counterattack didn't even touch the ball, so it was useless.

On the contrary, Nijmegen relied on its strong frontcourt attack to constantly threaten Alkmaar's goal.

In the 14th minute, Nijmegen won a free kick in the frontcourt, and their No. 9 striker Hem almost kicked the ball into the goal.

The ball was just slightly higher than the crossbar in the end, which made Van Gaal on the sidelines take a breath.

The Nijmegen fans at home cheered for the team even more excitedly.

Finally, in the 19th minute, Nijmegen took the lead in breaking the deadlock.

This time it was Lens again.

After getting the ball on the wing, he first made a two-on-one cooperation with his teammates, passed the wing forward Moussa Dembele, and then quickly broke through the wing with the ball.

When meeting the full-back Poconioli, the young and energetic Lens actually made a bicycle kick fake move, and Poconioli, who was caught off guard, was actually shaken away by him.

After using a bicycle kick to break through Pocognoli, Lens brought the ball to about four or five meters from the baseline amid the boos of Alkmaar fans and the cheers of Nijmegen fans, and then kicked a cross.

Unfortunately, the ball was not passed high enough and was close to the small penalty area. Goalkeeper Sergio Romero had left the goal line and stood in the small penalty area. It was likely that Romero would directly confiscate the ball, and the Nijmegen players in the penalty area would not be able to grab the first point to form an attack.

Just when the Nijmegen players and fans were a little disappointed, they saw that Alkmaar central defender Ragnar Klavan at the front point did not see Romero's position behind him at all, and jumped up directly, stretching out his right foot in the air as much as possible, trying to intercept the ball or clear it out of the baseline.

But Lens passed the ball too close to the small penalty area. Although Ragnar Klavan's clearance touched the ball, it did not hit the instep, but only hit his toes.